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Never underestimate the power of the dark side

Posted Nov 28, 2005 19:35 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw) by danielc
Parent article: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)

By contrast, MS Office 12 XML is not even out. There is no current application that supports it. It's market share is 0%.
Microsoft has extensive experience in going from 0% to 95% of the market share in no time. Think of word processors and web browsers.


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Never underestimate the power of the dark side

Posted Nov 29, 2005 21:14 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Microsoft has extensive experience in going from 0% to 95% of the market share in no time. Think of word processors and web browsers.

It took few years in all cases. And in both cases competitors were other proprietary progarms so freedom argument was never ever raised (Netscape opened browser code when was was already lost and unlike OpenOffice 2.0 this code was unsable. Yes, Microsoft is not beaten yet - but this is toughest challege to date.

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